eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
2350 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
4990 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, abban az esetben az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár) az érvényes, kivétel ez alól a boltban akciós könyvek.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
3990 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
1725 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, abban az esetben az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár) az érvényes, kivétel ez alól a boltban akciós könyvek.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
4690 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
5999 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
6995 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, abban az esetben az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár) az érvényes, kivétel ez alól a boltban akciós könyvek.
Until eleven o'clock that morning in late Febmary, Sam Diamond had considered himself a reasonably happily married man. It was his thirty-ninth birthday and every year since they had met, Laura had spmng a surprise on him. Admittedly these had become less inventive since they'd had children, and...
Prologue
THE HOUSE WAS FILLED WITH THE WARM AROMAS OF CHILI powder and fried ground beef, the only leftovers from taco night. In the white kitchen a boy sat at the table with his hands folded atop the white linen as if immersed in a postmeal prayer. He was dressed in a parochial school uniform:...
PROLOGUE
2 MAY 1945 NORTHERN ITALY
Major Angleton floated through the moonless heavens above Sant' Ambrogio, suspended in the night air by nylon cords and a canopy of black silk. He could see a line of fire burning along the forested ridge above the town, and wondered whether lightning or...
Preface
The Victorians are still with us. This is not a whimsical statement, intended to suggest that the shades of the Prince Consort or Elizabeth Barrett Browning or Dan Leno are still to be discovered floating in the night air if we empathize sufficiently with their memory or purpose. Rather,...
PROLOGUE
Tuesday 5 November 1991 Eastern Atlantic, due South of Gran Canaria
The two men surfaced noiselessly. Raising their diving masks they scanned the area around them. Nothing, only the pale bulk of the Lady Ghislaine and the soft slap of the sea against her huU. It was 4.30am, and...
Prologue
I suck at soccer.
When I was a boy, my parents would turn their backs to the field to avoid watching me play. I don't blame them. The game's fundamental principles only dawned on me slowly, after I had spent many seasons running in the opposite direction of the ball.
Despite these...
Mecklenburg
1995
Sisters, she thought, are reflections of each other.
Ute sat and watched herself in younger reflection: Margarethe. Margarethe looked weary. And sad. It hurt Ute to see her like that: when they had been small, it had been as if the energy had been divided unequally between...
PROLOGUE
Sunday 24 September, 11 p.m.
When Jasper Philips pushed open the door of the hotel room, four things struck him as being wrong.
Really, very vnrong indeed.
First was the floor. It didn't go with the rest of the room at all. From what he had seen of the hotel interior so far, Jasper...
I
My name is Tiro. For thirty-six years I was the confidential secretary of the Roman statesman Cicero. At first this was exciting, then astonishing, then arduous, and finally extremely dangerous. During those years I believe he spent more hours with me than with any other person, including his...
Chapter i
Three men at McAlester State Penitentiary had larger penises than Lamar Pye, but all were black and therefore, by Lamar's own figuring, hardly human at all. His was the largest penis ever seen on a white man in that prison or any of the others in which Lamar had spent so much of his...
CHAPTER
1
"GIMME TWO scoops, three waddles, and a shake!"
Marlene is standing a few feet away from me, yelling out the next order because of the damn noise. Like the clanging of the manhole-sized skillet I'm using to sauté a fresh heap of diced onions, celery, and bell peppers. The popping...
Preface
In the midst of a war in Iraq, in a time of escalating global terrorism, when civil liberties are disappearing as fast as the ozone layer, when one out of three women in the world will be beaten or raped in her lifetime, why write a play about my stomach?
Maybe because my stomach is one...
Chapter One
Winnie's scream split the darkness like a knife being run over corrugated iron.
Grace Malloy stirred, groaned irritably and then dug her husband viciously in the back. 'Shut her up or I'll wring her sodding neck,' she snarled as she burrowed deeper into their feather bed and pulled...
ONE
The face of Nicholas Easter was slightly hidden by a display rack filled with slim cordless phones, and he was looking not directly at the hidden camera but somewhere off to the left, perhaps at a customer, or perhaps at a counter where a group of kids hovered over the latest electronic...
There should have been a dark whisper in the wind. Or maybe a deep chill in the bone. Something. An ethereal song only Elizabeth or I could hear. A tightness in the air. Some textbook premonition. There are misfortunes we almost expect in life—what happened to my parents, for example—and then...
Prologue
London, May 1985
Rosamund Emerson looked across the room at her stepmother and her father's mistress and decided he couldn't possibly have loved either of them.
Not to have subjected them to this; to have insisted that they met, under these circumstances. She found the thought...
The Yugoslavian front, spring ip43
ITALIAN SOLDIERS!
The Slovenian people have launched an inexorable struggle against the occupying forces. Many of your comrades have already fallen in that struggle. And you will go on falling day after day, night after night, for as long as you remain tools...
ONE
My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession. I was a yoimg teenager, clumsy, embarrassed by my awkwardness, frustrated with life, horrified of puberty, about to be shipped off to a military school by my father for...
ONE
For the weekly docket the court jester wore his standard garb of well-used and deeply faded maroon pajamas and lavender terry-cloth shower shoes with no socks. He wasn't the only inmate who went about his daily business in his pajamas, but no one else dared wear lavender shoes. His name was...
NOUVELLE-=ORLEANS
nphe development of the New Orleans of legend A and tradition began during the administration of the French Governor the Marquis de Vaudreull (1743—53), with Its gaudy social functions, widespread governmental corruption, ahd the tolerance with which lapses from the strict...
The ninth day of the eighth lunar month, 1939. My father, a bandit's offspring who had passed his fifteenth birthday, was joining the forces of Commander Yu Zhan'ao, a man destined to become a legendary hero, to ambush a Japanese convoy on the Jiao-Ping highway. Grandma, a padded jacket over her...
One
IT HAD BEEN MONTHS since Kyle Craig had killed a man. Once upon a time, he'd been the type who needed everything yesterday, if not sooner. But no more. If years of hellish solitude in ADX Florence in Colorado had taught him nothing else, it was how to wait for what he wanted.
He sat...
January 2004 London It had taken courage for Tom Sedley to come up to London. Seeing his mother on the screen always stirred bad memories. But there she was now, the monochrome face smiling down at him in the cinema by the Thames, and it was all right. And yet, seeing those hauntingly alluring eyes...
nni The Gropes Tom Sharpé was born in 1928 and educated at Láncing College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He did his national service in the Marines before going to South Africa in 1951, where he did social work before teaching in Natal. He had a photographic studio in Pietermaritzburg from...
Acknowledgements
I consider myself extremely lucky to have two wonderful editors working on my books and I want to say thank you so much to Georgina Hawtrey-Woore who has been so supportive and dedicated during the writing of The Baby Group and to Kate Elton whose early input was so important to...
Prologue
Late Nineties
'Man Plans - God Laughs/ Robin couldn't help thinking of that old Yiddish proverb as she listened to the discussion going on around her. For some reason, she'd always felt uncomfortable talking about 'the future'.
It was a mild evening in late May, and Robin and her...
A first wife is for life, not just for Christmas
Letting out an ever-so-pretty little sigh that didn't cause her bosom to erupt from her corseted dress, Alison cast her eyes up and dov^n the top table, letting her gaze linger on the eye-catching arrangement of lilies from one of London's top...
Chapter 1
Modern women don't believe in love. Believing in love carries roughly the same stigma as wearing court shoes. It's as old-fashioned as going on a diet (as opposed to a detox). It suggests you have no sense of irony and you like Meg Ryan films. A modern w^oman cannot accept that Father...
chapter 1
DON'T NOTICE ANYTHING
My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that. Her detached gaze, the secret smile. Something.
We were living in a two-room apartment over the dance floor of a nightclub. My father was performing in...
ONE
Down to the last day, even the last hour now. I'm an old man, lonely and imloved, sick and hurting and tired of living. I am ready for the hereafter; it has to be better than this.
I own the tall glass building in which I sit, and 97 percent of the company housed in it, below me, and the...
SYNOPSES
It is my intention that Fortune's Favorites be read with full enjoyment as a complete, free-standing novel, without the necessity of having previously read The Grass Crown or The First Man in Rome. The synopses below provide a brief summary of those two books for the reader's...
Tom Sanders never intended to be late for work on Monday, June 15. At 7:30 in the morning, he stepped into the shower at his home on Bainbridge Island. He knew he had to shave, dress, and leave the house in ten minutes if he was to make the 7:50 ferry and arrive at work by 8:30, in time to go...
CHRIST THE LORD Anne Rice spent ten years researching this book, studying ancient texts and the work of scholars, and has visited Nazareth, Jerusalem and Bethlehem. She is the internationally bestselling author of cThe Vampire Chronicles', including Interview with the Vampire (filmed by Neil...
Acknowledgements
With thanks once again to Georgina Hawtrey-Woore and everyone at Arrow for all their hard work on my behalf. Also to Magna Books. Thanks also to the creators of the beautiful book cover designs which I am sure go a long way towards selling my books. Also to my late mother and...
The Chamber John Grisham lives with his family in Virginia and Mississippi. His other novels include A Time to Kill, The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, The Partner, The Street Lawyer, The Testament, The Brethren, A Painted House and The Summons.
AUTHOR'S NOTE
I've always wanted to write. But not until I discovered the old pulp science-fantasy magazines, at the age of sixteen, did this general desire become a specific urge to write science-fantasy adventures.
I took a lot of detours on the way. I discovered s-f in its golden age : the...
ONE
The decision to bomb the office of the radical Jew lawyer was reached with relative ease. Only three people were involved in the process. The first was the man with the money. The second was a local operative who knew the territory. And the third was a young patriot and zealot with a talent...
Daughter of the famous actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier, Daphne du Maurier was educated at home in London, and then in Paris, before writing her first növel, The Loving Spirit, in 1931. Three others, and a frank biography of her father, followed before Rebecca, in 1938, made her to her surprise...
Chapter 1
The rolling hills of southeast Oklahoma stretch from Norman across to Arkansas and show little evidence of the vast deposits of crude oil that were once beneath them. Some old rigs dot the countryside; the active ones churn on, pumping out a few gallons with each slow turn and...